What do you listen to?

[Fishteacher73]

It seems that we constantly skirt around music but there has not really been a thread to talk about what you are listening to. Perhaps we could all trade some music info and find out about some new tunes?

(Perhaps this thred should be in the "Books, Movies, and Games" section, but I thought I might throw it out here to see if we get anything started).

[Killean]

The music I listen two depends on my current mood. Do I wish for a little peace, or am I in the mood for somthing lively.

 

My first playlist consists of music from videogames (only the orchestrated pieces). Roughly 2/3's of the playlist are songs from Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy Series), the rest is from Koji Kondo (Legend of Zelda), Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill) and Robert Beanland & Chris Marlow (Conker's Bad Fur Day).

 

My second playlist for active days is comprised mostly of Classical Rock and Punk (One Techno Song). AC/DC, Deep Purple, Led Zeplin, Guns and Roses, Misfits, Offspring, Green Day, Chemical Brothers and our very own Tormod Guldvog.

[Fishteacher73]

YEAH! I got some response so I guerss I'll go ahead and throw in some of my two cents worth.

 

Again it depends on my mood (Probably it does for everyone):

 

In a bad mood or angry: Punk... Dead Kennedys or the Buzzcocks (Many otheras but those two top my punk list).

 

Hanging out: Indie...The true masters of this genre have got to be Pavement and Slint. These two bands helped shape of today.

 

Reading or studying: Experimental Instrumental post-punk/ post-rock....Tortoise, Don Caballero, Godspeed You Black Emperor. Fabtastically complex, but very easy to be background to other things,...

 

and on and on.......

[Stargazer]

List in no particular order, includes both alltime favourites and recent discoveries

 

Goth/death/hardrock/metal:

 

Nightwish

Within Temptation

Tristania

Lacuna Coil

Evanescence

After Forever

Metallica (at least pre-Load)

Helloween

Hammerfall

Iron Maiden

The Sins of Thy Beloved

Dimmu Borgir

Children of Bodom

Manowar

Guns 'N' Roses

 

Classic:

Vanessa-Mae

 

Classical Composers:

Giuseppe Tartini

Antonio Vivaldi

Johann S. Bach

Gustav Holst

 

Electronic/techno/trance:

Kraftwerk

Jean-Michel Jarre

Dune

The Cynic Project

Sandra Collins

Paul Oakenfold

303 Infinity

...and many many more that I found at mp3.com

 

Other:

Milla Jovovich

 

Some random tracks/misc:

Lisa Gerrard - "Injection"

[Turtle]

Yes, the mood theme runs true.Rather than a long list of things I listen to depending on mood, a short list of what I don't. Country & Opera

[Gabe Bixler]

i just bought the new "and you will know us by the trail of dead" album, and it is amazing.

 

these guys are the smartest musicians in rock right now, and they seem to make music for everyone to like.

 

http://www.trailofdead.com check it out. don't let the name scare you off, they're not death metal or anything.

[GAHD]

Nice picks Stargazer, I'm a big fan of Dimmu Borgir & Children of Bodom myself. Ever heard of Savatage? Awesome progressive metal there, I'd personally reccomend you check out the songs 'Chance' and 'Mozart and Madness'.

 

Other favorites of mine, with a choice song or two(or three):

 

Metal,Rock & such:

Marilyn Manson - 'Use your Fist and not your Mouth

Mindless Self Indugence - 'Bring the Pain'

Offspring - 'Come Out Swinging', 'I Want You Bad'

Rancid - 'Fall Back Down'

Rob Zombie - 'Superbeast', 'Feel so Numb'

Static-X - 'Invincible', 'Black and White'

Symphony X - 'Sea of Lies', 'The Requiem of gods'

Green Day - 'Basketcase', 'Longview'

Iced Earth - 'Phantom Opera Ghost', 'Dark Saga', 'Pure Evil'

Def Leppard - 'Love Bytes', 'When Love and Hate Collide'

Godsmack - 'Voodoo', 'Awake'

Pain - 'Shut Yourt Mouth'

Poison - 'Cherry Pie'

 

Country: <- VERY under rated

Aaron Tippin - 'Kiss This'

Johnny Cash - 'Hurt', 'Crazy'

Gil Grand - 'Famous First Words'

Chris Cagle - 'Between a Woman and Man'

Julie Roberts - 'Break Down Here'

Kenny Rogers - 'The Gambler' , <- Words to live by, right here ;)

 

Jazz, swing & such:

Tito puente - 'Cuban Pete'

Brian Setzer Orchestra - feat Gwen Stephanie; 'You're the boss'

Tom Jones - 'Sex Bomb'

Richard Cheese - 'More human than Human', 'Hash Pipe', 'Smack My ***** up'

Stan Getz - 'Balanco No Samba'

 

Rap/R&B:

Kanye West - 'All Falls Down'

Usher - 'Burn'

Ol'Dirty Bastard - 'Dirt Dog'

Cypress Hill - ' Dr. Greenthumb'

Ludacris - 'You's a Hoe'

 

Misc:

K-os - 'Crabbukket', 'Patience', feat. RedOne; ''Follow Me'

Propellerheads - 'Gun Fight music'

Savage Garden - 'Lemon Tree'

DJ Scooter - 'Maria (I Like it Loud)'

Irish Decendants - 'Rattlin Bog', 'Raggle Taggle Gypsy'

Rednex - 'Cotton Eyed Joe', 'Old Pop in an Oak'

 

just a few from my insanely large library

[Tormod]

Rednex - 'Cotton Eyed Joe'

 

Oh Gahd I hate that song!!!! ;)

[pgrmdave]

Okay, what I have on my comp:

 

Rock:

Aerosmith

Barenaked Ladies

Beatles

Ben Folds

Billy Joel

Blind Melon

Blink 182

Blues Traveler

Bob Dylan

Cake

Coldplay

Counting Crows

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Dave Mathews Band

Dispatch

Eagles

Evanescence

Eve6

Everclear

Five for Fighting

Good Charlotte

Grateful Dead

Green Day

Guns & Roses

Harry Chapin

Iron Butterfly

Janis Joplin

Jefferson Airplane

Jethro Tull

Jimi Hendrix

Led Zepplin

Lenny Kravitz

Metallica

Nirvana

Pink Floyd *my favorite*

Rolling Stones

Simon & Garfunkel

Steve Miller Band

Sublime

Sugar Ray

The Who

Victor Wooten

 

Instrumental:

Canadian Brass

Bach

Haydn

Frank Tichelli

Charles Ives

Patrick Burns

Gershwin

Jack Stamp

some big band and swing

 

Soundtracks:

Le Miserables

Phantom of the Opera

Rent

Jurrasic Park

[GAHD]

Oh Gahd I hate that song!!!! ;)

LMAO! Lots of people do.

I'm a redneck at heart, so I love it.

But I'll blare it on my new 5.1 right now, just for you.... ;)

 

Repeat 4

{ If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe

I'ld been married long time ago

Where did you come from where did you go

Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe}

 

He came to town like a midwinter storm

He rode through the fields so handsome and strong

His eyes was his tools and his smile was his gun

But all he had come for was having some fun

 

Repeat 2

{ If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe

I'ld been married long time ago

Where did you come from where did you go

Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe}

 

He brought disaster wherever he went

The hearts of the girls was to hell broken sent

They all ran away so nobody would know

and left only men cause of Cotton-Eye Joe

 

Gotta work...

 

Now everybody dance!

 

Repeat 5

{ If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe

I'ld been married long time ago

Where did you come from where did you go

Where did you come from Cotton-Eye Joe}

Hmm?

[Tormod]

LMAO! Lots of people do.

I'm a redneck at heart, so I love it.

But I'll blare it on my new 5.1 right now, just for you.... ;)

 

CENSORED

[Fishteacher73]

i just bought the new "and you will know us by the trail of dead" album, and it is amazing.

 

these guys are the smartest musicians in rock right now, and they seem to make music for everyone to like.

 

http://www.trailofdead.com check it out. don't let the name scare you off, they're not death metal or anything.

 

 

Have to agree.... They got started early on around Dallas...seen them play in little holes ion the wall.

 

As for Country; I'll grant it is under-rated, but for older country. The new stuff is just twangy pop.. (And I'm not a fan of pop).

[Freethinker]

Er "LISTEN"?

 

Ya as always I am going to cause problems!

 

During the day I wake up to NPR and listen to it in the car. Music radio stations suck. lucky to get two decent songs in a row and seldom enough time to deal with a CD.

 

At work, during the day, I stream AirAmerica. No local broadcast of it.

 

http://www.airamericaradio.com (realplayer needed)

 

or feed this straight into realplayer

 

http://play.rbn.com/?url=airam/airam/live/live.rm&proto=rtsp

 

At home, if I want noise in the background while doing other stuff, I stream various netradio stations from shoutcast. My favs are Freethought Radio (may be a contributing voice soon) or some of the far right fundies like first ammendment radio. Lots of laughs and they hate Bush almost more than me.

 

But music holds a very special place for me. I seldom use it for background noise. I enjoy getting "into it" too much. When a good song hits, I want silence and will give it full attention. Well silence unless I want to sing or play along. And that is the next part.

[Stargazer]

Nice picks Stargazer, I'm a big fan of Dimmu Borgir & Children of Bodom myself. Ever heard of Savatage? Awesome progressive metal there, I'd personally reccomend you check out the songs 'Chance' and 'Mozart and Madness'.

I will check them out, thanks for the tip.

[Freethinker]

OK, since what seems to have been intended is not "listen" but "what music"?

 

So I "listen" to vinyl. Current digital sources are vastly inferior to the musical reproduction vinyl offers. Vinyl is far more enjoyable to listen to. In fact when CD's were first coming out, physiological tests showed increases in heart rate and lower galvanomic skin resistances. All indicate INCREASE is stress levels. Don't know if those test results are on line or not. I will have to check. One was published in "Absolute Sound" in the '80's.

 

If I am playing guitar or going to sing along, MP3's are easy to play (winamp play lists) and do the job. Sound bad, but get the job done. CD's sound better, but except in the car, or if not avail on vinyl, why stop half way?

 

Top artists? Not in specific order

 

Van Morrison (you've got to hear his relatively unknown " Too Long in Exile")

Stones

Led Zepplin

Carlos Santana

BB King

Stevie Ray Vaughn

Hendrix

Clapton

Pink Floyd

Allman Bros

Creed

Pearl Jam

Ten Years After

Brian Auger

Otis Redding

Wilson Picket

Coltrain

Buddy Guy

Mahavishnu Orchestra

ELO

ELP

CSN (sometimes Y)

Leonard Cohen

Steve Miller

Byrds

Janis Joplin

Lou Reed ("Sweet Jane Live" gives me goose bumps and I have to grab my "axe")

Robert Cray

Association

Black Crows

Counting (them also)

Jackson Browne

 

 

Well, that probably gives a good cross section.

[Freethinker]

One expansion on the above.

 

Perhaps SACD and DVD Audio have the technical ability (high enough sampling rate, bit depth) to compete with vinyl, but I have not had the chance to evaluate it yet.

[Fishteacher73]

So I "listen" to vinyl. Current digital sources are vastly inferior to the musical reproduction vinyl offers. Vinyl is far more enjoyable to listen to. In fact when CD's were first coming out, physiological tests showed increases in heart rate and lower galvanomic skin resistances. All indicate INCREASE is stress levels. Don't know if those test results are on line or not. I will have to check. One was published in "Absolute Sound" in the '80's.

 

 

Was it possibly the music of the 80's that caused the stress? ;) I mean come on, how much Wham can anyone stand?